sources, but the passages are merely numbered and are printed continuously. There is a useful introduction, outlining a development of thought, and a glossary of the chief terms. General discussion on Aristotle continues to centre. chiefly upon Jaeger's interpretation. A. Mansion, in La Genèse de l'oeuvre d'Aristote d'après les travaux récents,1 minimises the Platonic element in the Metaphysics. P. Shorey, in a note on The "Evolution of Aristotle," * referring especially to Calogero's work "I Fondamenti della Logica Aristotelica," insists against Jaeger on the impossibility of making a clear system out of the collected works. Several important pieces of work are concerned with Aristotle's ethical theory. H. von Arnim's Das Ethische in Aristoteles' Topik,3 a substantial and detailed study, shows that his early ethical position is closely associated with Plato's ethics and psychology, and the doctrine of μeσórηs is not as yet found. The same writer concludes his long article Die Echtheit der Grossen Ethik des Aristoteles. H. G. Gadamer writes on Der Aristotelische Protreptikos und die Entwickelungs-geschichtliche Betrachtung der Aristotelische Ethik, 5 and is critical of Jaeger's theory. T. Means, in Aristotle and the Voluntary, discusses the opening section of Eth. Nic. r, and makes an intricate study of the various shades of meaning attached to ἀκούσιον. H. Rachham contributes six further notes on the Nicomachean Ethics. L. A. W. C. Venmans discusses in detail De Animal. 557a, 10-15. J. L. Stocks, in his important article The Composition of Aristotle's Politics, reviews evidence and examines the 9 1 Rev. Phil. Neo-Scol., August, 1927. 2 C.P., October, 1927. 4 Rhein. Mus., Ixxvi. 2, 1927. • Proc. Am. Phil. Assn., 1927. • Mnemosyne, lv. 2, 1927. 3 Vienna and Leipzig, 1927. 5 Hermes, lxiii. 2, 1928. 'C.R., February, 1928. theories of Jaeger and von Arnim. He concludes that DE Z and HO belong to different plans, H → representing an earlier and unfinished project; B and I' are of early date, A is perhaps an introductory treatise (unfinished) on economics. K. Svoboda's book L'Esthétique d'Aristote1 (translated from the Czech) is useful as a compendium of Aristotle's statements, and emphasises the logical and intellectual trend of his aesthetic theory. 2 There is not much work on Posidonius to record this year. K. Reinhardt, in Poseidonios über Ursprung und Entartung, gives a detailed discussion of two fragments. J. Morr's article Poseidonios-eine Quelle Strabons im XVII Buche3 is an examination of references to Egypt. Margaret Y. Henry, in an article Cicero's Treatment of the Free-Will Problem, * discusses the De Fato in particular, and argues that Cicero makes the postulate of free-will on the ground of its indispensable value for morals; in ethics he is a dogmatist, and his moral and patriotic motives are strong. Modern support is quoted for a similar attitude to the problem. 6 5 G. Ammendola has published an Italian edition of Seneca's de Clementia, with introduction and notes. Th. von Scheffer gives a German translation of the philosophical works. K. Busche contributes some further useful and important notes on the letters to Lucilius. O. Viedebantt has brought out the first volume of a series of selections entitled Seneca, der Mensch, der Staatsmann und Philosoph.8 W. A. Oldfather's Contributions to a Bibliography of Epictetus is an extremely valuable piece of work. J. Sykutris has published a set of notes1 on several passages in Book I. O. Apelt produces a third volume of his German version of Plutarch's Moralia. There is little to note on Neoplatonism. E. Bréhier's parallel edition3 of Ennead IV. is a valuable addition to the literature on Plotinus. J. H. Sleeman publishes a further important set of detailed notes, on passages in Enn. II. to VI. 4 Another notable book from Czecho-Slovakia (via Paris) is K. Svoboda's La Démonologie de Michel Psellos, 5 which studies exhaustively a very interesting by-product of the Neoplatonic school. DOROTHY TARRANT. 1 Phil. Woch., January 28th, 1928. 2 Leipzig, 1927. 4 C.Q., January, 1928. 3 Paris, 1927. 5 Paris, 1927. VII PAPYRI THIS article, having, like its predecessor (1924), several years to cover, cannot pretend to do more than glance at the more important publications, and so far as texts are concerned, will not generally go beyond first editions. Fuller information on the period under review may be found in the systematic bibliographies for Graeco-Roman Egypt in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, xiii. 84 ff., xiv. 131 ff. A classified catalogue of the literary papyri in the British Museum1 has been prepared by H. J. M. Milne, who will in future, it seems, be mainly responsible for the publication of the Museum's papyri, since Mr. Bell is likely to be preoccupied with other duties. This is a loss. which the depleted company of British papyrologists can very ill afford. The catalogue enumerates all the Greek and Latin literary texts from Egypt now in the Museum, with transcriptions of those not already edited. Among the latter are a piece described as a dramatic lyric, recalling the Oxyrhynchus mime, and probably belonging to the same class of composition (52), an iambic fragment attributed to Semonides (53), a fragment of Parthenius (54), lengthy rhetorical exercises (138), scholia on Callimachus (181), a Latin grammatical fragment ascribed to Palaemon, in rustic capitals (184), besides a number of biblical and other early Christian pieces. Some fragments of Homer M, of the second century B.C., 1 1927; with 12 plates and index. |